William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison (10 December 1805-24 May 1879) was an American suffragist and abolitionist who was well-known for his role as the editor of The Liberator newspaper and for his role in the Anti-Slavery Society.

Biography
William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on 10 December 1805, the son of immigrants from New Brunswick in Canada. He started his own newspaper in 1826 and joined the anti-slavery movement in 1830, and he started editing The Liberator newspaper when it was founded in 1831. Garrison was involved with abolitionist and women's suffrage societies, and he became known as an articulate and radical opponent of slavery; he left the Anti-Slavery Society after the victory of the Union in the American Civil War of 1865. In 1870, he became an editor of The Woman's Journal, a suffragist newspaper, and he became a reform activist. He died in New York City, New York in 1879 at the age of 73.